Did you confirm, as per Kenneth, that all your contacts are in Google Contacts <https://contacts.google.com/>?
If all looks OK there then I would just do a factory reset on your new phone and start from scratch. When you then add your Google account, the contacts will again sync. On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:44 PM, bill hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > The only other phone I've had was a Trakfone, about 6-7 years ago. The > phone I had immediately prior to buying the present one was a Motorola > Droid. Both the Droid and the Samsung are Android phones. If all the > contacts from my Droid would transfer to my Samsung, I'd be happy. But am I > correct that there's nothing I can do to get synch'ing to work again? It's > going to be a serioius annoyance if I need to manually put in each contact > on all four devices - two computers and my one phone (plus, I guess my > Google/Android contacts won't transfer to my wife's phone, which is also a > Samsung) - so that's four devices to peck away at, every time I add a new > contact. Seems like there should be some way around that, but I sure > haven't found it. > > Bill > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Marko Vukovic <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Bill >> >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 7:48 PM, bill hansen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Zack - You're right - my phone is Android, a Samsung S5. Your >>> thought that he just copied contacts from my old Droid phone sounds correct >>> too. It doesn't explain the dozens of contacts which were never on the >>> older phone, but that's a side issue. I guess I'll have to return the phone >>> to Verizon to see if they can fix the synch'ing problem. >> >> >> As Zack says, there is nothing to do if they are both Android. When you >> sign into any device with your Google account, the contacts will sync. >> >> What phone did you have before the 1st Android? Perhaps there were some >> contacts on the sim card from a previous phone, which were now copied on to >> the new one. >> >> -- >> Marko >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Marko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
